Unable to turn off “Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator” in YouTube, but I AM the administrator. Help!

Anonymous
2018-04-24T15:11:11+00:00

Unable to turn off “Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator” in YouTube, but IAM the administrator. Help!

Hi all,

Here’s the nub of the problem: 

YouTube says: “Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator.” but I AM the administrator of my own home pc. I'm totally mystified as to how this got activated in the first place and I can't find a way of undoing it. How do I switch this off?!?

I’m using Windows 7 and Google Chrome on a home computer. Any chance anyone could help me (and the no doubt countless others out there plagued with the same problem) out?

I’ve already trawled YouTube and Chrome forums on this and have drawn a dud at every turn. No help there. The problem is not a Family Safety issue, as I don’t have a family account. So you are quite possibly my last hope of resolving this.

I’ve even tried the regedit route (i.e. switching the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\ForceSafeSearch register key value to 0), but that, too, was a dead end because no such Google key or policy exists in the Policies folder on my pc.

I’m not a PC expert, so you may need to spell things out in fairly plain English for me.

Big, big thanks in advance for any assistance with this.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-06-15T21:14:06+00:00

    I think I found the issues with this. If you have FortiClient, the setting may have changed in there and this may have started to block YouTube videos. If you right click on the application in your toolbar and close it, that should fix the issue.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-06-15T21:58:51+00:00

    This solved it for me too.

    I stopped the firewall in the settings of the forticlient and this is better if you always need this software.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-06-25T09:43:11+00:00

    This site wouldn't exist if they know your instructions, but then its a different problem, its because we have no access to turn it on or off.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-06-26T11:18:29+00:00

    SOLUTION: For me it was on of my add-ons (F-secure). Find the one protecting your browser and delete it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-06-27T19:11:24+00:00

    I try my best on it.

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